I'm a huge animal lover, so when I came across
Dogpile, a search engine site that is trying to raise $1 million before 2009 to donate to animals in need, I wanted to get involved immediately. With the way the economy is right now, charities often suffer and people
are more apt to give away pets due to
financial woes. Similar to
GoodSearch, which donates money to the charity of your choice, Dogpile will donate a portion of its search revenue to helping our furry friends.
Everyone loves a good incognito stalking site right? When I posted YoName,
it got rave reviews, so here's a new one for ya. The new and improved YoName, with pictures and everything, is called
123 People.
Another one bites the dust: Bachelorette
Deanna Pappas and her fiancé Jesse Csincsak added to the long, long list of couples who broke up after
The Bachelor and
The Bachelorette (note to future contestants: It's not going to work out. I have a feeling.)
Here's the awkward tech part: They still have a website devoted to them as a couple,
deannaandjesse.com. They're not the first couple to start a blog or website about their life together, and they're definitely not the first to break up.
The webapp
Turn Your Name Into a Face is pretty self-explanatory: you type your name into the only field on the page, and it gives you a super-pixelated avatar. Different name, different avatar. Yes, that's all it does.
With the
Presidential Race in the homestretch (only one day away!), many of you will be tuning into your televisions to follow all the late-breaking election news. For those of you who will be away from your TV, but find yourself near a computer or have your smartphone with you, you can not only check out all of the
latest news on citizensugar, but you can also find voting help, advice, and get election updates from the following websites and online tools!
Ever wish you could take your brilliant ideas, submit them to a website and have a team of skilled producers create real-life episodes with them? Still in beta, but launching today,
Take180 is an interactive site that poses challenges to its users, and users then submit a video, picture, story, etc., as their answer. Within the Take180 community, other members will rate the submissions, leave comments, and then the producers will choose finalists for the final vote.
I've loved
eVite for a long time and think it's a great tool, but it's high time someone else jumped into the online invitation pool — enter
Pingg!
Pingg is a fun alternative to eVite and offers designs that are a bit more stylish and
SurroundSend, which allows you to send your invites via email, text, and even print. The designs must be nice —
Martha Stewart is backing it!
Take
Hulu and
YouTube, add some pretty colors, and you've got MTV's latest creation:
MTV Music. Not a revolutionary new music site, but what I do like about it is it's your one-stop shop for thousands of music videos from the past and from the future (Duran Duran, vintage Madonna, it's all there). Choose to watch on the site or embed on your own blog, and it even gives you a full screen option.
I love my video websites like YouTube, Vimio, and Hulu, and even though it's fun to watch hilarious viral videos, they're indispensable for TV clips; before when you forgot to watch or DVR something, you just missed it. The end. But the rise of websites with clips on them ensures you're never out of the loop; can you imagine living in a world where you missed "
D*ck in a Box"?
Similar to the genius that is
Umbrella Today, which texts you one thing (whether you need an umbrella that day), I have another web tool you may just find indispensable. Can you guess what
Is It Iced Coffee Weather tells you?
Just enter in your zip code, and you get advice on what temperature your coffee should be that day.
